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[arch-ports] PPC port status
by Alexander Baldeck 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

hey ports ml, regarding jason's request for us to present status of the port we work on i'd like to present a summary of what my initial goal was and while i was working on to achieve it has been going on: back in late summer 2004 i got a few old Power Macintosh machines for free. right from the start i wanted to run linux on them. me being an archer thought about porting it. first thing to do was to install another distro first, in my case it was debian as it is working pretty well on all platforms it supports. first thing to do is - in my opinion - getting current/base to work as a standalone system. for that one needs to start with the following packages in order: binutils gcc glibc zlib libtar ncurses readline bash pacman when i had these installed to a chroot, i started from scratch - to get rid of references to debian - from within the chroot using makepkg. if all goes well you now have clean packages to start buildin the rest of current, this can be a pretty timeconsuming and stressing process. fortunately i didn't have to modify that many PKGBUILDs. :) one advice: if you compile pacman first and use makepkg from the start, it may happen that the md5 check is not working properly. at least that was how it was on ppc32. no idea about others. Archlinux/PPC Status: ============== it's been almost a year now - i am after all a one man army - and i have a complete current and a rather small part of extra built and working fine. current (100%) extra (30%) the installer is still not working well mainly due to the lack of time. right now i am in the process of migrating current to GCC 4.0.1. for that i stopped to work on extra for i cannot manage it on my own anyway. testing now has about 50% of current including X, a few window managers and other stuff to drive a desktop system. best regards, alex / kth5

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[arch-ports] Welcome to the arch-ports list
by Jason Chu 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

I'm pretty sure there are only 3 of us here (maybe Judd too...), but I figured I'd just set the tone. This list is where all "official" port-related discussion will happen. It's not a secret list, anyone will be able to join and offer help/listen/ideas. I'll always be here as a conduit to the developers, to offer guidance, and to get that damned pacbuild done (actually, things are progressing well... just slowly). I wouldn't mind getting port status from you guys. Currently I know that Alex is managing the ppc port and symajala is managing the amd64 and i586 ports. Where are you guys at, what are your methods, what would you like to improve, how do you feel about your progress? In an email following shortly, I'll tell you my ideas for multiple arch support in pacman and our official package management process. Jason -- If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.

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[arch-ports] hey list!
by Alexander Baldeck 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

hey list, only wanted to try if the ports list actually works. :) regards, kth5

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